1914

1914 was the 1,914th year of the Common Era and the third year of the 1910s. It was a major year in human history, seeing the start of World War I.

Events

 * In Mexico, during the Mexican Revolution, 8 US Navy soldiers are arrested by Victoriano Huerta's government and US forces skirmish with Constitutionalist forces nearby in the port of Tampico in the so-called "Tampico Affair". The US Navy proceeds to occupy the port of Veracruz, and relations deteriorate between the Americans and Mexicans. The same year, Abraham Reyes forms an alliance with the Habsburg Empire and German Empire, moving Mexico towards becoming a global power. Meanwhile, Rebeldes continue to fight with Mexican Army troops at Nosalida, El Matadero, and other locations sporadically.
 * Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is killed with his wife in Sarajevo, Austrian Bosnia, by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip of the Black Hand, who wants to oust the unpopular couple (and Austria-Hungary in general) from his home. He is captured and dies in prison in 1918.
 * Austria-Hungary invades Serbia on 27 July because of their allegations that Serbia was behind the assassination of the Archduke. The German Empire declares war on Serbia as well to support their ally of Austria-Hungary. Germany also declares war on Serbia's ally, the Russian Empire, and declares war on their ally, France. World War I begins.
 * Germany proceeds to invade France through Belgium in a violation of Belgian neutrality, pulling Belgium's ally of the United Kingdom into the war. The British Expeditionary Force and the French Army begin to hold the Germans back north of Paris after a determined German advance, and save the city at the First Battle of the Marne. The war on the Western Front deteriorates into stalemate and trench warfare.
 * The Imperial Russian Army invades Austrian Galicia and German East Prussia, succeeding in their first campaign but meeting decisive defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg and the First Battle of the Masurian Lakes. The German general Paul von Hindenburg advances into Poland and takes Warsaw, overrunning the Congress Poland puppet state and taking the war to Russian territory.